NAFDAC embarks on nationwide tour to warn on dangers of bleaching

• Published date: 08 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has said it will embark on a nationwide tour to warn of the dangers inherent in the usage of bleaching creams before the clampdown on the manufacturers and sellers of bleaching creams.

Speaking in Lagos on Thursday during a sensitisation workshop for the Media on the dangers of bleaching cream, and regulatory controls the Acting Director General of the Agency, Dr. Monica Eimunjeze urged the Media to champion the campaign against the skin bleaching pandemic by providing Nigerians with the right information to make the right decision about safeguarding their health.

Dr. Eimunjeze decried the proliferation of skin Bleaching creams and products in the country that has assumed alarming proportion to the detriment of the majority of the unsuspecting Nigerians.

She noted that most of the bleaching creams out there are not registered by the agency, and so, could be harmful to the body. 'There are those who are clandestinely in the market in which the Agency is yet to effect the regulatory control and consumers must be very careful about these creams.'

She said, 'We will be moving to full-time enforcement so we have Nigerians on notice. We have had some operations in the past, so we are going to look very closely again.When the full-time enforcement starts, everybody will understand the reason we are doing what we are doing. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.'

'We see dangers inherent in using these cream products that are not in our regulatory process, so we are collaborating with health journalists to help us...